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Last Reviewed: 17th March 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Document: Employee earnings in the UK: 2020
Employment Category: Professional occupations
This page contains the average salaries for Professional occupations in the United Kingdom in 2021 as extracted from the "Employee earnings in the UK: 2020" document published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). If you are not sure which occupation group your occupation is listed in pleave view our list of occupations allocated to each group by the Office of National Statistics
Below you will find details of the average salary as detailed in the ONS report for 2021 and 2020 with details of the percentage change in average salary and a supporting salary calculation so you can see what the take home pay for each occupation listed under "Professional Occupations" would be. Please note that some occupations may have no average salaries defined for specific years, this occurs when insufficient data is recorded via the survey or when occupations categories are redefined.
Average Salaries for 2020 (based on the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2020) relate to the pay period that includes 22 April 2020, at which time approximately 8.8 million employees were furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS); the average salaries include furloughed employees and are based on actual payments made to the employee from company payrolls and the hours on which this pay was calculated, which in the case of furloughed employees are their usual hours.
Interpreting average salary data is difficult in 2021 due to how COVID-19 impacted the Average Weekly Earnings data. This means that comparisons with 2020 need to be treated with caution, and we encourage users to focus on long-term trends rather than year on year changes during the COVID 19 years.
| 2020 Annual Salary 1st Jul 2020 to 30th Jun 2021 | Occupation | Pay Differance | 2021 Annual Salary 1st Jul 2021 to 30th Jun 2022 |
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| £ 37,379.00 | Biological scientists | 4.22 % | £ 38,956.00 |
| £ 41,505.00 | Biochemists and biomedical scientists | -6.58 % | £ 38,773.00 |
| £ 32,296.00 | Physical scientists | -0.06 % | £ 32,277.00 |
| £ 37,365.00 | Natural and social science professionals n.e.c. | 2.96 % | £ 38,471.00 |
| £ 43,663.00 | Civil engineers | -2.59 % | £ 42,530.00 |
| £ 42,782.00 | Mechanical engineers | -3.77 % | £ 41,167.00 |
| £ 50,866.00 | Electrical engineers | -1.01 % | £ 50,354.00 |
| £ 43,295.00 | Electronics engineers | 14.02 % | £ 49,367.00 |
| £ 41,745.00 | Aerospace engineers | -2.20 % | £ 40,827.00 |
| £ 39,705.00 | Engineering project managers and project engineers | 2.73 % | £ 40,790.00 |
| £ 44,164.00 | Engineering professionals n.e.c. | -2.26 % | £ 43,165.00 |
| £ 51,053.00 | IT business analysts, architects and systems designers | -5.88 % | £ 48,053.00 |
| £ 49,311.00 | Programmers and software development professionals | 2.09 % | £ 50,343.00 |
| £ 50,775.00 | Cyber security professionals | -2.49 % | £ 49,510.00 |
| £ 44,055.00 | IT quality and testing professionals | -0.07 % | £ 44,024.00 |
| £ 31,632.00 | IT network professionals | 5.87 % | £ 33,490.00 |
| £ 38,500.00 | Information technology professionals n.e.c. | 9.33 % | £ 42,091.00 |
| £ 31,433.00 | Web design professionals | -0.69 % | £ 31,215.00 |
| £ 36,621.00 | Graphic and multimedia designers | -2.29 % | £ 35,782.00 |
| £ 62,219.00 | Generalist medical practitioners | 3.67 % | £ 64,504.00 |
| £ 42,937.00 | Specialist medical practitioners | 3.57 % | £ 44,468.00 |
| £ 33,442.00 | Physiotherapists | 5.71 % | £ 35,353.00 |
| £ 32,525.00 | Occupational therapists | 3.55 % | £ 33,680.00 |
| £ 30,343.00 | Speech and language therapists | 8.50 % | £ 32,923.00 |
| £ 32,491.00 | Therapy professionals n.e.c. | 1.42 % | £ 32,951.00 |
| £ 33,920.00 | Midwifery nurses | 6.05 % | £ 35,971.00 |
| £ 38,736.00 | Community nurses | 6.53 % | £ 41,264.00 |
| £ 51,224.00 | Higher education teaching professionals | -0.37 % | £ 51,034.00 |
| £ 37,732.00 | Further education teaching professionals | -1.09 % | £ 37,319.00 |
| £ 40,881.00 | Primary education teaching professionals | 1.30 % | £ 41,412.00 |
| £ 36,737.00 | Nursery education teaching professionals | 3.47 % | £ 38,010.00 |
| £ 33,681.00 | Special needs education teaching professionals | 1.24 % | £ 34,097.00 |
| £ 56,481.00 | Teachers of English as a foreign language | 5.95 % | £ 59,841.00 |
| £ 26,489.00 | Teaching professionals n.e.c. | 4.13 % | £ 27,582.00 |
| £ 77,212.00 | Legal professionals n.e.c. | -0.89 % | £ 76,522.00 |
| £ 41,900.00 | Chartered and certified accountants | -1.38 % | £ 41,321.00 |
| £ 41,866.00 | Taxation experts | 1.97 % | £ 42,690.00 |
| £ 42,930.00 | Management consultants and business analysts | 0.16 % | £ 43,000.00 |
| £ 32,671.00 | Marketing and commercial managers | 13.37 % | £ 37,040.00 |
| £ 47,213.00 | Actuaries, economists and statisticians | -4.55 % | £ 45,063.00 |
| £ 37,832.00 | Business and related research professionals | 2.70 % | £ 38,855.00 |
| £ 26,265.00 | Architects | 5.08 % | £ 27,599.00 |
| £ 26,433.00 | Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants | 6.81 % | £ 28,234.00 |
| £ 38,707.00 | Social workers | 0.75 % | £ 38,999.00 |
| £ 45,550.00 | Probation officers | -2.39 % | £ 44,460.00 |
| £ 36,828.00 | Clergy | 3.56 % | £ 38,140.00 |
| £ 40,396.00 | Librarians | -12.01 % | £ 35,544.00 |
| £ 33,604.00 | Archivists and curators | -9.76 % | £ 30,324.00 |